I received the phishing email on a non-public email address, which is also not registered with Vimeo, on Friday at 12:47 AM. Both that initial posting and the tech support representative's response has since been deleted, suggesting that Vimeo was not informed of the nature of the issue until Friday morning. When the Vimeo user posted the comment, including the body of the email text, a Vimeo technical support representative responded saying that there was no record of an account by that name and that it appeared not to be an issue. Prior to the Thursday posting, there had been no more than twenty comments to the spam article in the past twelve months. That Vimeo forum is Vimeo's way of allowing users to report spam. Last Thursday, around 6 PM Eastern Time, a Vimeo user posted a comment to a Vimeo forum article indicating receipt of an email that purported to be from a Washington Post journalist. Yet a phishing attack late last week suggests that Vimeo's growing popularity may come at a price to those who have never even used the site. ![]() Vimeo, a popular online video sharing site, usually has the backing of the hacking and activist community (witness recent hacking attacks on internet service providers that have chosen to block Vimeo due to its use for video sharing).
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